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Appendix C. Contact Information for Major Government Offices, Outsourcing Centers, and Online Resources

Key China Central Government Offices

General Administration of Customs

Telephone: [phone]Web: www.customs.gov.cn

• The General Administration of Customs (China Customs) is a government agency that supervises and manages all arrivals in and departures from the Customs area of the People’s Republic of China.

• China Customs exercises a vertical and three-tiered management structure. The top tier is the General Administration of Customs (i.e., the headquarters in Beijing).

• The middle tier is composed of the Guangdong Sub-Administration of Customs (in charge of 7 customs regions located in Guangdong Province), 2 Supervising Offices (located in Tianjin and Shanghai respectively), 41 Customs regions, and 2 Customs educational institutions.

• The third tier refers to the 562 Customs houses or offices under those 41 Customs regions. In addition, it has posted overseas offices or officials in Brussels, Moscow, Washington D.C., and Hong Kong. Its staff is numbered at over 48,000 (including Customs anti-smuggling police).

Ministry of Education^[1]

Telephone: [phone]Web: www.moe.edu.cn

• The Ministry of Education (MOE) is a central government agency under the State Council, responsible for China’s educational undertakings and language work.

• The Ministry of Education’s main mission is:

• To investigate and put forward the guiding principles and policies for China’s educational undertakings, and ...